Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...dominated by the President's iron-willed mother, Sara, who bossed everybody with a benevolent despotism and frequently overruled Eleanor Roosevelt's decisions. Waiting to move into the White House during the bank panic in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt worried about getting enough money to scrape by. "[Franklin] smiled and said he thought we should be able to manage . . . I began to realize that there were certain things one need not worry about in the White House...
Then came the thunderclap. On the eve of the 1940 Republican Convention, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Republican Henry L. Stimson to head the War Department, Republican Frank Knox to be Secretary of the Navy. The move had obvious political advantages to Roosevelt, but he was also mindful of Hitler's sweep through Europe, and wanted the services of Stimson and Knox. It would be hard to tell who was angrier: the Republicans or Johnson. But he was still nursing another ambition: to be Vice President. Two weeks after the first blow fell he was shunted aside again at the Democratic...
...Waiting. Louis Johnson did not sulk for long. He simply learned another lesson: how to wait. He turned down a scattering of minor job offers from a conscience-smitten Franklin Roosevelt, still holding out for the War Department or nothing. Finally he took a wartime lend-lease mission to India, from which he shortly returned with Delhi belly and another manuscript which "can never be published," he says, "as long as Winston Churchill is still alive...
Jacob Blaustein, 56, a multimillionaire who lives at Pikesville, Md. Blaustein built a fortune in Texas and Pan American oil, is now president of the American Trading & Production Corp. A friend of Franklin Roosevelt, he made surveys of D.P.s in Germany, was vice-chairman of the Petroleum Administration for War Marketing Committee. He is now president...